School Notes: School of Management
July/August 2014

Former treasury chief to teach at SOM

SOM has formed a partnership with former treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner to better educate business students about critically important strategies in financial crisis prevention and response. Geithner will deliver a series of lectures in the fall of 2014, in which he will discuss lessons from the global financial crisis of 2007–2009. The lectures will be open to both the Yale community and students at schools in the Global Network for Advanced Management via video stream. The lectures will also be a central component of a new Yale course on the global financial crisis, which Geithner will coteach with Yale SOM’s deputy dean, Andrew Metrick. Geithner will also convene a multi-day seminar on financial crisis management for senior-level officials from finance ministries and central banks around the world, and work with Yale to inaugurate a global video competition on the topic of “Financial Crises in the Modern World.”

Leadership training in Beijing

Yale University has created the Yale Leadership Center in Beijing, which will host leadership programming offered by schools and centers across the university. Operated by SOM, the center will expand the growing array of conferences and workshops for Chinese leaders that Yale offers. Yale will inaugurate the center with a major conference, convened by SOM, on October 26–27. 

Located in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, the center will be a hub for leadership development activities, with advanced technological capabilities to connect Beijing with New Haven and other locations around the world. It will facilitate research, serve as a platform for discussions and conferences, and provide offices for faculty from throughout Yale, as well as flexible workspace for SOM’s MBA, MAM, and PhD students.

Expanding entrepreneurship programs

SOM has launched a new entrepreneurship program and named Kyle Jensen, a YEI mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence, as director. Jensen will design and teach courses in entrepreneurship, recruit and advise student entrepreneurs, establish programming that complements the work of YEI and other university resources, and strengthen connections with SOM alumni entrepreneurs and other constituents across Yale. To further support entrepreneurship, SOM has created two new scholarships for students in each entering MBA class and will name up to five entrepreneurial fellows each year who, after graduation, will receive two years of loan deferral to enable them to work full-time on a startup.